Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Would you like to be part of a team that delivers rich, scalable, and secure networking capabilities for private and hybrid cloud environments Our team owns the Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform, a key component of Microsoft's Hybrid Cloud portfolio. Customers deploy our SDN solutions across private and hybrid cloud environments.

We are a collaborative and inclusive team that puts customer needs first. As part of the Windows + Devices organization, you will influence the Windows Server platform that powers critical workloads worldwide.

As part of this team, you will work across a broad spectrum of the SDN stack, spanning user and admin experiences, control plane services, and highperformance networking datapath components. You will drive technical direction and execution within the team, collaborating with internal stakeholders to understand customer and user requirements and translating them into robust, scalable solutions.

In this role, you will independently apply appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, design quality, diagnostics, and engineering insight, while taking responsibility for the correctness and quality of AIassisted outputs. You will lead architecture discussions by testing design hypotheses, developing complex design specifications, and influencing technical decisions across features and components.

You will define and drive clear test strategies to ensure solution quality and prevent regressions, write extensible, maintainable, welltested, secure, and performant code, and review code to ensure appropriate test coverage and adherence to standards. You will use debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry to validate assumptions, improve observability, and raise the operational readiness of the platform.

Security and reliability are firstclass concerns in this role. You will drive secure coding practices, review security risks and compliance considerations during design and code reviews and implement security standards to ensure each layer of the solution is independently secure. You will also proactively drive automation wherever possible.

Our SDN solution plays a key role in Azure Arc, enabling customers to build consistent and manageable hybrid cloud environments. This role offers endtoend ownership and influencefrom UI and APIs to control plane and datapathand the opportunity to raise the engineering bar for the team while delivering meaningful customer impact at scale.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Independently apply artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner, taking responsibility for the quality and correctness of AIassisted requirements, designs, code, tests, and other engineering assets, and helping raise responsible AI usage practices across the team.
• Use SDLC and engineering health metrics to identify improvement opportunities, drive adoption of better engineering practices, and experiment with AI tools to improve team productivity, code quality, and diagnostics.
• Act as a fullstack engineer delivering features that enable Azure Arc and hybrid cloud networking scenarios, while driving execution clarity and technical momentum within the team.
• Design, implement, and review extensible, maintainable, and testable features across C#, Go, and web technologies (e.g., Angularbased UI extensions), leading by example and coaching others through code reviews.
• Drive the design and evolution of RESTful APIs that form the SDN management and control surface, ensuring consistency, versioning discipline, and longterm maintainability across the platform.
• Build and extend microservices and backend components, including evolving data models where persistent state is required, while influencing architectural decisions to improve scalability, reliability, and security.
• Use modern communication frameworks such as gRPC to exchange data reliably and drive alignment on communication patterns across distributed systems.
• Define and drive clear test strategies, build test harnesses, and close test gaps to prevent regressions, validate correctness, and measure performance and reliability at scale, improving overall test health for the team.
• Review product and test code to ensure appropriate test coverage, diagnosability, security hardening, and compliance, providing timely, actionable feedback that accelerates team delivery.
• Drive observability and operational readiness by instrumenting features with logging, telemetry, debugging, and monitoring, and by improving oncall experience, troubleshooting guides, and incident learnings.
• Champion automation across build, test, and deployment workflows, driving the team toward zerotouch or lowtouch production deployments and safer change management practices.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.
  

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Solid understanding of systems software and/or distributed systems.
• A track record of solid results across multiple ship cycles.
• Designing and architecting products, services and systems by employing design principles across diverse technological solutions.
• Effective design and implementation skills using C#, Java, or C++.
• Experience with networking protocols and architecture is a plus.
• Experience with scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of modern computer architectures found in desktop PCs and servers, including computer networking.
  
  

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.